Posted in August 2009

movies

today, i watched 5 movies:

hedwig and the angry inch

hedwig and the angry inch

primal fear

primal fear

falling down

falling down

standard operating procedure

standard operating procedure

overnight

overnight

aside from “falling down” (which was cheesy) and “standard operating procedure” (which was, sadly, nothing new to me), i was pretty happy with my choices. i was especially stoked about hedwig. i thought the story was great, the music was rad (performed by eli and girls against boys), and the lead actor was amazing. i’m bummed that i missed the boat on that movie, cause apparently, it was released in 2001? heh.

anyway, tomorrow, we have a quick jimmy-less rehearsal, before we meet back up with him in los angeles on saturday. i’m pretty excited about this next leg of tour, as it will be in a 15 passenger van. it’s always nicer to have a place to call home, even if it’s a home on wheels. the flying and renting minivan deal was getting a little rough, and it never felt like we were a band on tour. so, it’ll be nice to be doing it legit. now, we just need our full backline and that will make for a very happy me. hehe.

what else is new? i rooted and installed cyanogenmod on my g1. very happy about it. i bought a class 6 microsd card and partitioned it with a fat32 media storage partition, an ext4 app storage partition, and a swap partition. the combination of the swap and the custom mod have definitely given me a performance boost. and i don’t have to worry about running out of space again! now, if only phone makers would stop seeing android as a low-cost alternative and actually start putting it on decent hardware, we wouldn’t need to do so much hacking! haha.

two crazy things

so, i woke up and two crazy things happened.

first of all, i have a full on sore throat and stuffy nose. like, some kind of cold. really, immune system? this is gonna happen in the middle of the summer? booo. i think it has to do with the fact that since getting home, i’ve been using my home toothbrush and not my tour one. and i think my home one might have had creepy crawlies left on it, from the last time i was sick. so, lesson of the day: ABBNT… always be buying new toothbrushes!

then, i get a phone call from alamo/national car rental. when we returned our mini-van at o’hare, last week, we left our tomtom gps guy in it. d’oh! anyway, this lady called the next day and asked if i left something in the car. we were thrilled! i told her that we left our tomtom in the glove box. she asked if she could mail it to me at my address on file, and i was thrilled, especially since she said she wouldn’t charge me.

well, fast forward to today, where i woke up to a missed call from a number i didn’t recognize. so, i called and it rang a bunch. i was almost gonna hang up. finally, a lady answers “thanks for calling alamo rent-a-car”. for some reason (probably cause i had just woken up), i said “oh, wrong number”. but, then she asks “did you leave something in your car?” hmm.

we then proceeded to have the exact same conversation that we had last week. wtf?

so confused right now. haha.

weird dream

i had the strangest dream, last night. there were video game creatures walking around a city that resembled columbia heights, but wasn’t. and there was a high rise hotel in the middle that i was staying in.

the thing about the creatures is that they were killing dogs. i’m not sure why. i think in the video game, they were the good guys and the dogs are like mutants. it was some kind of crazy role reversal intra-dimensional shit.

at any rate, it was scary and i hope some giant werewolf creature with guns doesn’t ever shoot my dog. (i don’t even have a dog).

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